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Corporate Partners
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Anheuser-Busch / Budweiser
Now in its 15th year of supporting NFWF, Anheuser-Busch has helped to
enable wildlife habitat restoration, improve public access, educate
future leaders in conservation, and conserve the nation’s outdoor
heritage. One program, “Help Budweiser Help the
Outdoors,” has generated over $8.7 million since inception to
support important conservation efforts throughout the United States and
Canada including projects that help protect critical waterfowl breeding
habitat in North and South Dakota, restore important quail habitat in
California and the Southeastern and Southwestern US, improve deer
management practices in several eastern states, and restore important
wintering habitat for elk in the Rocky Mountains.
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ArcelorMittal
ArcelorMittal has committed $2.1 million over three years to sponsor
the ArcelorMittal Great Lakes Watershed Restoration Program. The
program helps restore the ecological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin
by supporting collaborative approaches to restoration of wetlands and
other critical fish and wildlife habitat. The Great Lakes Basin
includes parts of the States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota,
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and the Provinces of Quebec and
Ontario.
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Bank of America
Bank of America offers a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
branded credit card. Every purchase made with this card helps NFWF to
carry out our mission of sustaining, restoring, and enhancing the
nation’s fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
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Bass Pro Shops
Bass Pro Shops and Johnny Morris Foundation have committed $5 million
over five years to launch the More Fish Campaign that helps support fish
habitat protection, enhancement, and restoration projects nationally,
with particular emphasis on engaging agencies, anglers, and other
conservation groups at Table Rock Lake and the White River watershed in
Arkansas and Missouri to improve fish habitat and water quality.
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Bed Bath & Beyond
In 2008 Bed Bath & Beyond began a partnership with NFWF where $1
from the sale of reusable shopping bags is donated to NFWF to support
marine and coastal programs across the country, from restoring water
quality in the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound to protecting sea turtles
and seabirds from harmful marine debris.
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BP
For more than seven years, BP Alaska has partnered with NFWF and
provided support for vital research on Beaufort Sea polar bear
populations in Alaska and Canada to determine their distribution, use of
sea ice, den locations, impacts from noise, and population numbers. BP
has also helped to establish the Alaska Sea Duck Fund to monitor
imperiled sea duck populations, with an emphasis on the eiders. In 2008,
BP contributed to the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Fund.
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Chevron
In 2008, Chevron Alaska helped to support the development of
non-invasive photo-identification techniques of the Cook Inlet beluga
whales in order to identify individuals and get a more accurate
population estimate. Since the Cook Inlet beluga whales were listed as
endangered species in fall 2008, this program is vital to NOAA and other
partners to help develop recovery plans for the species.
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ConocoPhillips
ConocoPhillips and NFWF have worked together for more than 17 years.
Our most recent partnership, the ConocoPhillips SPIRIT of Conservation
Migratory Bird Program, was launched in 2005 and is a focused and
strategic initiative to conserve threatened birds and their habitats
around the world. Over the past four years, the SPIRIT program has
provided funding for 23 projects in seven states and five countries.
More than 55,000 acres of priority bird habitats have been protected or
enhanced as a result of these awards. In addition, ConocoPhillips in
Alaska has partnered with NFWF for the past six years to support polar
bear research and Cook Inlet beluga whale conservation projects.
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Covanta Energy
Covanta Energy, a waste-to-energy company, is a key partner in the
Fishing for Energy program. Along with NOAA, NFWF launched this new
program in 2008 to work closely with the fishing industry to assist in
the disposal of old or unusable gear and to address the growing issue of
derelict fishing gear in our nation’s coastal
waterways. Through this program, fishermen from ports selected by
NOAA experts are able to dispose of gear free of charge in dedicated
collection bins. Covanta collects, processes, and converts the gear
to create energy which is fed back out to the very communities from
which the gear came. In 2008 the partnership collected and disposed of
over 122 tons of fishing gear from 10 ports in the Northeast United
States. Each ton of non-metal debris produces enough electricity to
power one home for 25 days.
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DuPont
In 2007, DuPont became a partner in NFWF’s Delaware Estuary
Watershed Program under its own funding and technical assistance program
Clear into the Future: A DuPont Delaware Estuary Initiative.
DuPont works with the community to preserve and enhance the beauty and
integrity of the Delaware Estuary for generations to
come. NFWF’s Delaware Estuary program provides support to
organizations working on a local level to protect and improve watersheds
in the estuary, while building citizen-based resource stewardship. Now
in its sixth year, the program has awarded 134 grants, providing over
$3.8 million in federal and private funds that were leveraged with an
additional $11 million in matching funds raised by grantees.
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ExxonMobil
For more than a decade, ExxonMobil has invested in the Save The Tiger
Fund’s vision for tiger conservation. It is one of the largest
corporate commitments ever to save an endangered species. The Fundhas taken a multifaceted approach to tiger
conservation that serves as an umbrella for the preservation of habitat
and biodiversity. This partnership supports field studies to develop
better tiger management plans, tiger conservation education programs,
efforts to curtail poaching and illegal trade of tiger parts, efforts to
resolve human-tiger conflicts, and activities that protect and restore
tiger habitats.
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Marathon Oil
in 2008, Marathon and NFWF partnered to provide key funding to
complete the removal of invasive tamarisk trees along 40 miles of the
San Miguel River-one of the last remaining free-flowing rivers in the
West. The project, which began in 2001, is the first major watershed
control effort of its kind. It is focused within the San Miguel
headwaters to the confluence with the Dolores River, a distance of more
than 120 miles, covering 1,400 acres of land in Colorado's San Miguel
and Montrose Counties.
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The Orvis Company
Since 1987, Orvis and NFWF have partnered to protect and restore
native fish and wildlife habitat by raising public awareness and
engaging communities in stewardship activities. The Orvis Partnership
Program supports projects dedicated to the acquisition, restoration,
enhancement, or long-term protection of native fish and wildlife
habitat.
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PG&E Corporation
Since 1999, PG&E has partnered with NFWF on the Nature
Restoration Trust: Empowering Communities program that supports habitat
restoration within PG&E’s service districts in California.
PG&E and NFWF facilitate conservation at the local level by
empowering communities to take care of native habitats and species and
engaging youth in hands-on restoration.
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Shell Oil Company
Since 1998, the Shell Marine Habitat Program, a partnership between
NFWF and the Shell Oil Company, has supported conservation projects that
benefit marine and coastal habitats and species in the Gulf of Mexico
and, more recently, Long Island Sound and Alaska. Through this
partnership, 167 grants have helped more than 100 organizations conserve
and restore marine habitat and more than $40 million in grants and
matching funds has been put to work for marine conservation. The Shell
Marine Habitat Program has played a critical role in the conservation of
the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, which is now recovering
along the Texas coast. Shell also helped NFWF establish the Shell Polar
Bear Fund to assist with population research on the north slope of
Alaska.
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Southern Company
Southern Company has been a partner of NFWF’s since 2002 with
the launch of the Power of Flight Bird Conservation Fund, which
protects birds through habitat and species restoration and environmental
education. More than 134,000 acres of wildlife habitat have benefitted
from the program.In 2004, NFWF and Southern
Company embarked on another partnership, the Longleaf Legacy
Program, which helps to restore and conserve the longleaf pine
ecosystem and sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide. Through this
program, more than 29,000 acres will be planted with 8 million
seedlings. In 2006, Southern Company signed on for a third program with
NFWF by becoming the first corporate partner in the Five Star
Restoration Grant Program that supports community-based wetland,
riparian, and coastal habitat restoration. Southern Company has
supported projects that collectively restored more than 10,200 acres of
wetland and coastal habitat, and close to 46,000 feet of riparian
buffer. All programs are implemented within the Southern Company service
area of Georgia, Alabama, northwestern Florida, and southeastern
Mississippi.
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United States Golf Association
Wildlife Links—a partnership between the United States Golf
Association and NFWF begun in 1996—provides grants for
cutting-edge research, management, and education projects that improve
golf courses as habitat for wildlife, while also enhancing playing
conditions for golfers. To date, this unique partnership has focused on
creating habitats on golf courses for native pollinators, aquatic
invertebrates, amphibians, small mammals, and birds. The program’s
goal is to help make golf courses a meaningful part of the conservation
landscape. Through 2008, 31 projects have been funded and nearly $2
million has been invested by USGA and NFWF in making golf courses better
habitats for wildlife.
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Wal-Mart
Acres for America was created in 2005 as a novel way for the
corporate world and the conservation community to work cooperatively to
conserve vital wildlife habitat for future generations. Wal-Mart
launched the program with a commitment of $35 million over 10 years to
permanently conserve at least one acre of priority wildlife habitat for
every acre developed for the company’s facilities. After four
years, the partnership has already surpassed Wal-Mart’s goal by
conserving three times the amount of acreage originally planned; 13
projects have been funded in 13 states and Wal-Mart’s funds have
helped to permanently conserve more than 412,000 acres of habitat.
Wal-Mart is the first major retail store to offset its land development
footprint with permanently protected conservation lands.
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